玉みがく露ぞ枕に散りかかる
夢驚かす竹の嵐に
夢驚かす竹の嵐に
- Roma-ji
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Tama migaku tsuyu zo makura ni chirikakaru yume odorokasu take no arashi ni
- English Translation
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Dew like polished gems
falls scattering upon
my pillow as I sleep—
for the storm that wakes my dreams
blows among the bamboo leaves.
- Meaning
- Dew like polished jewels comes scattering onto my pillow, shaken down by the storm in the bamboo that has startled me out of my dreams.
- Commentary
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Miscellaneous Poems 1050
Headnote: "Wind in the bamboo startles a dream"
This poem is on the topic "Wind in the bamboo startles a dream." Woken from a dream by the storm rattling through the bamboo, the poet finds dew like polished jewels scattering from the leaves onto his pillow.
Describing the dew on the bamboo as polished jewels, the poem joins beauty and surprise, the dew scattered by the very storm that broke the dream. The dew on the pillow also suggests the tears of one roused from a dream.
First line, “tama migaku”: like polished gems, describing the shining dew.
Second line, “tsuyu zo makura ni”: zo is an emphatic particle, answered by the attributive form in the third line.
Third line, “chirikakaru”: the attributive form closing the zo construction; the poem breaks here.
Fourth line, “yume odorokasu”: waking one from a dream, bringing in the "startles a dream" of the topic.
Fifth line, “take no arashi ni”: by the storm in the bamboo; the inversion gives the cause of the scattering dew at the end and answers the "wind in the bamboo" of the topic.
- Author
- Saigyō
- Source
- Sankashu
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